Wüstenschiff

Ich sage jetzt bewusst "in Afrika" obwohl Libyen selber ja auch dazu gehoert. Mindestens aus unserer Sicht. aus Libyscher Sicht hat Afrika immer suedlich der Sahara angefangen (mir ist mindestens noch nie ein Libyer begegnet, der etwas anderes erklaert haette).

Die Webseite mathaba.net ist keine, die dem Regime Ghaddafis unfreundlich gesinnt ist. Das aendert aber nichts daran, dass die Auflistung im angehaengten Artikel ueber die Libyschen Investitionen in Afrika durchaus korrekt erscheint:

Link: http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627695?rss

AFRICAN UNION: Libya is one of the biggest contributors to the budget of the African Union.
MALI: Gaddafi’s money and diplomacy have helped to resolve conflicts in northern Mali between rebels and the government. In 2010.
CONGO: Libya has put $65 billion into sovereign wealth funds, including one which is specifically designed to make investments in Africa.
LIBERIA: Libya has provided millions in investment projects, helping to strengthen the rule of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in one of Africa’s most impoverished nations.
NIGER:Also in Niger Gaddafi has helped to prop up the government and the authorities would become more fragile without his financial help.
CHAD: Gaddafi has been a key supporter of the government, which would weaken if it lost his aid revenue.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Libya has helped to prop up the fragile government, sending paratroopers into the capital in 2001 to defeat a rebel assault.
MAURITANIA: Mauritania has debts to Libya of about $200 million.
SUDAN: The 20,000-troop peacekeeping mission in Dafur, jointly supported by the African Union and the United Nations, could be hampered if the African Union (AU) loses funding from Gaddafi and destabilize the country.
ETHIOPIA: The African Union, based in Ethiopia's capital, could find itself in financial trouble if it loses the massive support that Gaddafi gives.
SOMALIA: The African Union peace keeping mission, whose 8,000 soldiers are crucial to the battle against Islamic radicals in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, could be severely weakened if the AU lost the financial support of Gaddafi.
GAMBIA: Libyan firms own two hotels and the "Dream Park" entertainment centre in Gambia. Gambian agriculture has received support from Libya, including a donation of seven new tractors.

Aha, dachte ich - endlich auch mal ein "nichtwestlicher Staat", der was spendet.

Man muss es aber etwas genauer lesen. Immer wieder heisst es, dass Gaddie das Geld geschickt hat (oder die 7 Traktoren nach Gambia ). Gaddie, Gaddie, Gaddie. Eigentlich waere es ja das Geld des LY Volkes gewesen. Und ebendieses Volk hat sich jeweils bitterlich beklagt, dass waehrenddem in einigen Staaten der gesamte Beamtenapparat mit LY Geld abgeschmiert wird, man in LY in den Spitaelern keine Mittel habe um eine halbwegs funktionierende Grundversorgung sicherzustellen.